After last season's brief spike, scoring has dropped back to the levels of the 1950s and '60s.

There was a brief spike in storage ring RMS beam motion during the time when the feedback loops were open.

This induces a brief spike in power consumption and becomes a serious issue at high frequencies.

THE most news media attention that cranberry growers once could hope for was a brief spike in consumer awareness around Thanksgiving.

At this point there is a very brief spike of current (around 10-100 microseconds long) that spikes and decays.

A brief spike in earnings in 1990 proved illusory as corporate spending continued to shift from high profit margin mainframes to lower margin microprocessor-based systems.

Oil was discovered nearby in 1926 and after a brief spike in population, it resettled around 250.

Thus, while called food fads, they are not actual fads (which are defined by sharp but brief spikes in popularity).

There was a brief spike in asylum seekers in the late 1990s.

There was a brief spike in oil prices when that war began, but they retreated as rapidly as they climbed.